Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas - Fringe 2023 Adultery, impotence, and abundant copulation

Take one top academic, some dangerous ideas, add one comedian and it’s the force of nature that is the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CODI).

Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, and now in its eleventh year, CODI is sixty minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country.

Adultery, impotence, and abundant copulation

… and that’s just your stressed-out cells!  Are you stressed and feel you lack direction? Well sometimes your cells feel exactly the same! Cells need optimum conditions and perfect alignment to work and divide successfully, but scientists are out to disrupt yeast cell peace. The same yeast you use to relax in your beer is being stressed by scientists in the lab. And what have they found? Well, just like humans, stress in cells can see them make some questionable life choices. Ankita Gupta (The University of Edinburgh) asks if stress makes beer taste better?